A lady was detained Monday night after apparently permitting a dog to be dragged to death on Sacramento County highways while leashed to her vehicle, constable’s authorities said.
The suspect, a 33-year-old parolee, was supposedly intoxicated and driving an RV when she stopped around 10 p.m. at a business near Fair Oaks Boulevard and Marconi Avenue in Carmichael, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
The female let her dog out of the vehicle, then returned in the recreational vehicle and repelled with the dog beyond the vehicle however still leashed to it, according to the press release.
The recreational vehicle dragged the dog about 100 backyards on the road prior to the dog slipped out of the leash, authorities said. Deputies discovered the dog had actually passed away of severe injuries consisting of “significant road rash,” according to the press release.
Deputies situated and detained the driver, who was booked early Tuesday early morning into the Sacramento County Main Jail downtown on a felony charge of animal cruelty. Her bail is set at $500,000, prison records reveal, and she is because of appear in Sacramento Superior Court on Thursday.
Sheriff’s Office representative Sgt. Amar Gandhi explained the dog as a blended breed, around 1-year-old.
